SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. They’ll take you through their own personal experiences, from creating a scalable product strategy to building an enduring company that puts people and purpose before profit.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The current public market environment might look like a great SaaS crash for many people. It’s a leveling out from a period of explosive growth. As things appear to slow, how do we get back to the fundamentals, find the things that are great about SaaS that are measurable, and help people see the value in your business?

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. I also want to mention – I use this blog as somewhat of a personal journal. We have companies like BuzzFeed and C3 making loose announcements about how they will incorporate generative AI into their business, sending their stocks up 50-100%+.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 15, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Jeff Galowich, CEO of Blue Horizon Software. In a world seemingly obsessed with hyper-growth, this may sound like heresy, but when evaluating a B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, the most important metric we look at is retention. The Impact of Retention on a SaaS Business.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

The typical SaaS company grows faster, loses more money, and has a higher valuations than product sale companies. Profitability. Public SaaS Companies. -8%. Public Software Companies. +8%. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. SaaS Companies Trade Profits for Growth.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. Introduction Content marketing combined with search engine optimization (SEO) sits at the top of the list of effective ways to generate leads for today’s best SaaS companies.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

High-quality companies will still be financed, if on less stratospheric terms. Some companies treat these as publicity stunts, talking a big vision, but not really investing. PLG is a good strategy for certain categories, but VCs have a tendency, with all good intentions, to ram strategies down the throats of portfolio companies.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

As for Rob, before founding Salsify, he was the first-ever product manager at Cambridge Semantics and before that was a Senior Product Manager @ Endeca helping grow the company to it’s $Bn exit. How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? How does Rob think about usage vs seat-based pricing in SaaS?

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2023

The main purpose of this blog is to be a resource for founders, entrepreneurs, executives and employees at startups and late stage private businesses. Yet many individuals don’t really start paying attention to the public markets until they have to (their company get’s close to going public).

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

This framework will allow you to think through every aspect of the matter and make the right decision for your company. There’s been quite a bit of debate on Twitter recently about bootstrapping vs VC funding. Instead, I think there is a multitude of factors (ranging from product, company, founding team, market, etc.)

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

This framework will allow you to think through every aspect of the matter and make the right decision for your company. There’s been quite a bit of debate on Twitter recently about bootstrapping vs VC funding. Instead, I think there is a multitude of factors (ranging from product, company, founding team, market, etc.)

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Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

User Pilot

MAY 19, 2021

The B2B SaaS marketing space can feel a lot like an echo chamber. SaaS marketers need to move fast and break things, but rather than jumping from one ‘shiny new growth hack’ to another, stick to a few tried and tested tactics first. What do SaaS Companies spend on B2B Marketing? Creating A B2B SaaS Marketing Plan.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Praised as the fuel for r apid growth of companies such as Dropbox, Spotify, and Evernote, and lambasted as the reason smaller companies went bankrupt, freemium has piqued the interest of developers and CEOs who hope to get as many people possible hooked on their products as possible. Freemium in its infancy: 1982-2000.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 1, 2022

In today’s market, the path to growth for B2B SaaS companies is to continue following the two SaaS lodestars: customer acquisition and customer retention. Investors will be looking even more deeply into these metrics in 2022 and beyond to protect their portfolio companies and as they diligence new investment targets. .

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Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Valuations came down, structure regrettably came back , cashflow trumped growth, founder friendliness decreased, diligence generally flopped back from FOMO to FOFU, and companies again started to treat employees as, well, people they are paying to do work. Please remember that I do these for fun and fun alone. Partial hit.

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